Oct. 20. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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of Megara, Woolf of Lacedasmon, John of Philippi, 

 Wylson and Hatton of Negropont, and Tynmouth 

 of Argos. Will any of your correspondents kindly 

 tell me the modern names of the following sees : 

 Olevensis, Calliopolis, Solubrlensis, Chrysopolis, 

 Mimatensis, Aurisacensis, Zagabrensis, Dames- 

 tensis, Poletensis, Cundurensis, Andicunensis, Na- 

 vatensis, Sirmium? 



Mackenzie Walcott. M.A. 



Sepulchral Monuments in Barytes (Vol. xii., 

 p. 165.). — Barytes, of which Barium is the me- 

 tallic base, is a mineral earth, found in Cumber- 

 land, Yorkshire, and other parts. One of its 

 compound varieties, provincially termed " Cawk," 

 may be met with in Derbyshire, a county well 

 known to the Romans for its mineral products ; 

 pigs of lead having been discovered, with in- 

 scriptions denoting their mineral connexion with 

 Roman stations in those parts. The fissured hill 

 of Crich, in the last-mentioned county, is rich in 

 metallic ore. The discovery of a native carbonate 

 of baryta, or barolite, at Anglesark, in Somerset- 

 shire, is ascribed to Dr. Withering, from whom 

 the mineral acquired the name of witherite ; it 

 occurs crystallised and massive. (See Brande's 

 Diet, of Science, &c., under article " Baryta.") 

 In Lancashire the Roman stations were numerous. 

 The Bapvs x'ldos of Barolite may have some affinity 

 to the " stone " alluded to by your correspondent. 



r. Phillott. 



Moustache worn by the Clergy (Vol. xii., pp. 202, 

 254.). — In the room where I write, the great 

 Archbishop Laud and Bishop Morley of Win- 

 chester look down from the wall upon me, both of 

 them in moustache and "imperial." And lam 

 happy to say I met the other day a venerable 

 friend of mine, a doctor in divinity, luxuriating 

 in moustache and beard, much, as he told me, to 

 his comfort. 



Amongst the popes, I find the following who 

 wore either beard, moustache, or both : 



John XL Nicolas III. Clement VIII. 



Benedict V. Innocent VI. Leo XI. 



Benedict VIL Clement VII. Paul V. 



John XX. Julius II. Gregory XV. 



Leo IX. Paul III. Urban VIIL 



Victor II. Julius III. Innocent X. 



Urban II. Paul IV. Alexander VIL 



Innocent 11. Pius IV. Clement IX. 



Urban III. Pius V. Innocent XL 



Honorius IIL Gregory XIII. Alexander VIIL 



Gregory IX. Sixtus V. Innocent XIL, who 



Alexander IV. Urban VIL died anno 1700, 



Adrian V. Gregory XIV. the last of the 



John XXI. Innocent IX. bearded popes. 



BOTOLPH. 



" Vision of St. Brahamus'' (Vol. xii., p. 271.). 

 — Mr. E. Stillingfleet Cayley, then an under- 

 graduate of Trinity College, was generally under- 

 stood to be the author of the above. In line three 



No. 312.] 



of the third stanza, the original has "fought," 

 not " found." J. Eastwood. 



notes on books, etc. 



We have lately received, from an American correspon- 

 dent, two volumes to which we would draw the attention 

 of our readers. The first, which is privately printed, in 

 in a great measure a selection from the " Shippen MSS.," 

 which are to appear under the superintendence of the 

 editor of the work before us, which is entitled Letters and 

 Papem relating chiefly to the Provincial History of Penn- 

 sylvania, with some Notices of the Writers. It is a curious, 

 and, to the future historian, will be a most useful volume ; 

 for though consisting of miscellaneous letters, accounts, 

 &c., selected from the MSS. we have referred to, and 

 which selections the editor justly describes as being "of 

 some, though not remarkable value ;" yet, the genealogical 

 information so industriously collected hj the editor, and 

 the numerous allusions to passing events contained in the 

 letters, and the frequent glimpses which they affoi-d of 

 the state of society at the period when they were written 

 — " in the old time when George III. was King" — many 

 indeed before his accession — will, we are quite sure, be 

 hereafter turned to good account by the Macaulay of 

 America. 



The other volume to which we referred. Papers in Re- 

 lation to the Case of Silas Deane, is the first work issued 

 by "The Seventy-six Societj'," lately established at 

 Philadelphia for the publication and republication of 

 books and papers relating to the American Revolution. 

 The many societies established in America for a like pur- 

 pose — its centenary, and other associations — must result 

 in such a body of evidence, having relation to the general 

 and the local governments and people, as no other nation 

 can hope to rival. We trust, however, that our trans- 

 atlantic friends will excuse us if we remind them that 

 many works — the one before us for example — derive their 

 interest from the fact of their being cotemporary docu- 

 ments ; necessarily, therefore, coloured with the passions 

 and prejudices, good or bad as may be, of the hour ; and 

 ought to be carefully edited, that the casual reader, as he 

 must have the bane, may have the antidote before him. 

 In these papers, now published, suspicion is thrown on 

 the conduct of one of the most illustrious of American 

 citizens, which a competent editor would have proved 

 groundless in a single note. 



The prospects of the coming publishing season, are at 

 length before us. The most important announcement is 

 that from Messrs. Longman of Volumes IIL and IV. of 

 Mr. Macaulay's History of England, now definitely ad- 

 vertised for December. They announce also two volumes 

 of Moore's Journals and Correspondence, and of Mr. Buck- 

 ingham's Autobiography, completing those works ; and 

 also of Merivale's History of the Romans under the Empire, 

 and of Holland and Everett's Life of Javries Montgomery, 

 and Vol. III. ^i Lieut. Burton's Pilgrimage to Medina and 

 Meccah. Amongst new works to be issued by the same 

 firm, are Dr. Earth's Travels in Africa ; A Portion of 

 the Journal of Thomas Raikes, Esq., from 1831 to 1847; 

 A Narrative of Capt. M'Clure's Arctic Voyage and Dis- 

 covery of the North- West Passage ; a second Journey 

 round the World, by Madame Ida Pfeitfer; a work on 

 Russia, by the Rev. T. Milner ; Eastern Experiences, by 

 A. S. Kennard ; Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon, by 

 S. W. Baker; An Inquiry concerning Religion, by Mr. 

 George Long ; and a work by Mr. Woods on The Past 

 Campaign, which is to comprise the " Journals of Capt. 



